Defect Management Contracts in Shropshire

Defect Management
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire requiring Defect Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Defect Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Defect Management 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 2.31% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 - -
75th Percentile £481 - -
90th Percentile £497 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £491 £525 £415
% change year-on-year -6.43% +26.51% +2.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Defect Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 83 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 96.15% 61.94% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 51 125
10th Percentile £311 £260 £410
25th Percentile £403 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £378 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
75th Percentile £537 £497 £540
90th Percentile £544 £519 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Defect Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Job postings citing Defect Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Job vacancy trend for Defect Management in Shropshire

Defect Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Defect Management in Shropshire.

Daily rate trend for Defect Management in Shropshire

Defect Management
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Defect Management within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford - 3 £455 - 1
Defect Management
West Midlands

Defect Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) CA Gen
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Toad
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods